Laura Li

Doctor. Clayton

Music 1010-090

7/25/2022

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When Mozart Jr. penned his first opera, "Bashful and Bastina," he was just twelve years old

and touring Germany. The young Mozart was only beginning to exhibit his "legendary talent." At the

age of twenty, Mozart had already produced more pieces than any other Romantic composer,

including Chopin and Liszt, when he and his father returned to Salzburg in 1773. Over thirty

symphonies were written alone. There are more than a hundred sonatas, concertos, songs, and solos

for various instruments.

Despite Mozart's extraordinary genius and his enormous prestige, the archbishop saw him

as nothing more than a common slave—and a very terrible one at that. due to his honor. Mozart

was required to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor Haydn, spending each day in the

antechamber through the corridor, waiting for the master's commands. At any point, the

archbishop may offend Mozart or even severely punish him.When Mozart could no longer take

it, he eventually broke up with the archbishop in front of everyone. The first musician in

European history to publicly rebel against the rules of the court, he resigned and departed.

Undoubtedly exceedingly courageous and valiant given the societal norms of the period, this

action. Because it implied suffering, starvation, and possibly death.

Exvi, Mozart's second child, was born in 1791, the same year that The Magic Flute, his final opera,

was finished. At this point, Vienna was being engulfed by the fog of history. The Magic Flute,

performed in German, was Mozart's final opera and was composed in the final year of his life. The

Magic Flute is a diverse opera, according to Gianmaria Griglio, Artistic Director of ARTax Music.
Mozart added many operatic elements as well as a variety of musical forms and dramatic expressions

that were typical of Germany, Austria, Italy, France, and Czechoslovakia before the 18th century,

enriching the opera's musical language. It may be claimed that this is a fantastic collection of singing

drama within the context of the Viennese popular theater of the time, a fine fusion of German ballad

style and Italian opera, with both the formal drama's rigidity and flexibility. The song is incredibly

lovely because it mixes ethereal, sanctified religious hues with vivid, joyous secular colors. Mozart

personally enjoyed the first ten minutes of the opera "The Magic Flute," and he led the first and

second performances. He asked for a clock to be placed at his bedside so he could use it to count the

time while daydreaming about the "Magic Flute" performance that was still going on. A few hours

before he passed away, he was still eager to hear the music from "The Magic Flute." (Mozart's

examination of the overture to "Die Zauberflöte")

In this opera we can see Mozart presenting the balanced, oppositional ideas of the 18th

century Baroque period. The aria is divided into three parts, from lyric to florid singing, with

restrained melodic changes; and the "Flame of Hatred" in the second act is an extremely gorgeous

florid aria, which can be said to be one of the most famous in the history of florid soprano arias. As

the soul character in this opera, the role of the Queen of the Night directly affects the overall artistic

level of the work. Its transformation from good to evil requires extremely subtle discrimination

behind the scenes, and Mozart portrays her essence with the most difficult florid passages that

transcend the floridness of the human voice itself and give an ironic tinge to her raging mood, in a

very high register (high f), with rapid singing, a mixture of musical repetition tones, staccato and

flute-like contests.

Now, hundreds of years have passed, those powerful royalty, those luxurious and

magnificent castles and palaces, those powerful bishops and princes, those jealous of his peers

who have suppressed him, with the wash of time and the changes of the world, or forgotten, or
become dirt into dust. Mozart, however, was never forgotten. By 1962, there were more than

4,000 monographs on him on the market, and today they have probably nearly doubled again.

The beautiful and moving music he wrote is sung almost daily around the world. The three major

symphonies, Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, Symphony No. 40 in G minor, and Symphony

No. 41 in C major, are enduring; the four major operas, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni,

La Femme Fatale, and The Magic Flute, have been sung endlessly. Generations of descendants

have lamented over his short life and have received endless joy, inspiration, consolation and

enlightenment from his works. This is the greatness of Mozart.

 Reference

Griglio, Gianmaria. “Mozart - Die Zauberflöte Overture [Analysis].” Gianmaria Griglio ~

Conductor and Composer, 12 May 2021,

https://www.gianmariagriglio.it/mozart-magic-flute-overture-analysis/.

“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 July 2022,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart.

Sadie, Stanley. "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart". Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Mar. 2022,

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart. Accessed 26 July 2022.